Now it’s an anachronism; a leftover from the days when roadrace circuits came with crosswalks and curbs. But in the mid-’50s the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the world’s most important motorcycle race.

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In the summer of 1962, in Hagerstown, Indiana, I discovered something that would change my life forever. My friends and I always rode our bicycles everywhere—a great way to get around, two wheels and pedal power. But that summer was to be different because that summer my friend Jay, who was a little older than the rest of us, got a motorcycle.